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The Geography of Prestige: Prizes, Nigerian Writers, and World Literature
\"1 In his account, the power of national cultural fields, especially, has declined since the mid-twentieth-century heyday of anticolonial cultural nationalism. Since awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to Nigerian writer and activist Wole Soyinka in 1986, the Swedish Academy has been at the forefront of defining a \"global\" or \"world\" literature—for English, the terms are interchangeable—that inevitably alters or even undermines \"national literary hierarchies and systems of value,\" the ways in which writers are appraised by their compatriots (EP, 304). Named for Sir Michael Caine, who helped establish the Booker (now Man Booker) Prize for Fiction while an executive at Booker plc, the Caine Prize is based in London and presented at a ceremony in Oxford. Since 2000, it has awarded £10,000 each year \"to a short story by an African writer published in English. According to Bánjọ, the openness of the competition \"to all Nigerians,\" regardless of place of residence, \"does not mean that writing about other peoples and cultures in a foreign setting is acceptable. \"90 Evidently, then, \"excellence\" is conceived of not only as aesthetic re-presentation, but also as the worthy representation of Nigerian society—and perhaps even \"the African continent\"—including through the physical form of the book. Since 2013, the Nigeria Prize for Literature has become even more explicit in its claims to be developing a national literature by encouraging high-quality publishing within Nigeria: \"Too often, authors feel that their main options are either to self-publish, which means bringing out unassessed and usually improvable books, or to publish abroad, relinquishing what should be their primary audience.
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Deep in the Sahara
An Arab girl of the Sahara who wants to wear a malafa, the veiled dress worn by her mother and older sister, learns that the garment represents beauty, mystery, tradition, belonging, and faith.
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Desert disaster
The fourth leg of the robot races requires Jimmy and the other contestants to navigate a route through the Sahara Desert--without a navigation system.
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Desert ethics, myths of nature and novel form in the narratives of Ibrahim al-Koni
This broadly comparative essay contrasts environmentalism in the fiction in English translation of the Libyan writer, Ibrahim al-Koni, with dominant trends in contemporary environmentalism. An analysis of three of the most ecocritically pertinent of the novels in English translation suggests that the natural world is viewed through the lens of the mythical, encompassing the religious worlds of both Tuareg animism, as well as monotheism represented by Islam and early Christianity. The novels to be considered are The Seven Veils of Seth, Anubis and The Bleeding of the Stone. Unlike environmental approaches which derive from the European Enlightenment of procedural rational disenchantment, human beings in Al-Koni's work are accorded a place in the sacred order which allows non-parasitic modes of existence within the framework of a sacred law. This conviction is articulated most powerfully through the symbol of the desert which inspires all of Al-Koni's work. The social and sacred desert ethic out of which Al-Koni's fiction is forged, strains at the form of the novel, the genre which constitutes and is constituted by an immanent, individual vision of the world. As a consequence, Al-Koni's narratives tend towards allegorical modes which highlight the radical complexity and simplicity of allegory.
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Illegal
\"Ebo is alone. His brother Kwame has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe and a better life--the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Disillusioned African
This humorous tale of the na?ve and curious African student-cum-philosopher wandering between North and South, the rural and the urban, has been in gestation for a period of nearly two decades. With allusion to traditions of the philosophical novel and the picaresque, Nyamnjoh's protagonist travels from his African village to the sharply divided and socially cruel world of 1980s Britain. By casting aside his disillusion and the traps of servitude and victimhood, The Disillusioned African reveals his creative potential for curiosity and adventure. He brings a bird's eye view, always affectionate, gently mocking, to the cultural idiosyncrasies of the new world he encounters, which throws his own African culture, politics and socio-economic realities into light relief. Praise for The Disillusioned African 'Whatever the imagined future for Africa, this courageous book will certainly provide, for both its foreign readers and the young generation of Cameroonians, a provocative insight into the complex web of despair, frustration, paradox and hope . on the eve of the 21st century.' - Louise Cuming, Catholic University of Central Africa 'In his characteristically humorous style, Nyamnjoh portrays the various social ills in society and castigates the political elite he holds largely responsible.' - Piet Konings, African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands. 'Francis Nyamnjoh . has a particular way of saying very serious things in the most unserious manner. He entertains, and in the process he moralises, he teaches, he gives you lessons. learning experience and philosophy to give you a view of the dilemma of the African.' - Sammy Beban Chumbow, Professor of Linguistics, University of Yaounde I
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The Shadow Speaker (review)
Spisak reviews The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu.
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African Identities
This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by 'Africa' and 'Blackness' throughout the century. Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for analysis of modernity, nationhood and racial difference. Kanneh provides detailed readings of a range of literary texts, including novels by:
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
Gloria Naylor
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Chinua Achebe
V.S. Naipaul
For anyone interested in literature, history, anthropology, political writing, feminist or cultural analysis, this book opens up new areas of thought across disciplines.
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